Spring Break 2010 Groups Visit UH
Over the past four weeks we have been blessed to have several Spring Break groups visit Urban Hope including: eight students from Cedarville University, two ladies from Hopewell Grace Brethren Church -PA, forty-two college students from UNI (University of Northern Iowa) and twenty-seven teens from First Christian Church -IN.
Each group received training in the ministry philosophy of Urban Hope, strengths and challenges to urban ministry, how to build relationships and ways to swing to the spiritual and share Christ. In addition to receiving training, the groups got to experience the city in fresh new ways. Some ministry opportunities included: traveling to a local Puerto Rican neighborhood, Chinatown and "Philabodia" to learn about the culture, visiting the subways to hand out meals and minister to the homeless, participating in a local ministry entitled "Breaking Bread" (which feeds and educates hundreds of homeless every Thursday afternoon), helping out with Urban Hope's weekly children's programs and nearby boys and girls clubs and cleaning the streets and lots in the Kensington community.
Collin Barrett of Cedarville University writes of his encounter with a homeless man and how he was challenged, "Vernon...is originally from Bermuda...though (he) has his struggles, like the rest of us, it was very evident that he is striving his hardest after Christ. He was recently offered a pastoral position, including compensation and a house, which he turned down! He sees his current situation as his calling...(he) has nothing but one duffel bag of clothes, but has an overabundance of joy in His Savior." As a result of this encounter Collin and the rest of the team were challenged not only to break their preconceived perspective of the homeless but also in their relationship with Christ and love for those less fortunate.
Cedarville students stand next to UH Logo.
The Cedarville Group.
Posing for a pic in Love Park, downtown.
Cleaning up a lot.
Each group received training in the ministry philosophy of Urban Hope, strengths and challenges to urban ministry, how to build relationships and ways to swing to the spiritual and share Christ. In addition to receiving training, the groups got to experience the city in fresh new ways. Some ministry opportunities included: traveling to a local Puerto Rican neighborhood, Chinatown and "Philabodia" to learn about the culture, visiting the subways to hand out meals and minister to the homeless, participating in a local ministry entitled "Breaking Bread" (which feeds and educates hundreds of homeless every Thursday afternoon), helping out with Urban Hope's weekly children's programs and nearby boys and girls clubs and cleaning the streets and lots in the Kensington community.
Collin Barrett of Cedarville University writes of his encounter with a homeless man and how he was challenged, "Vernon...is originally from Bermuda...though (he) has his struggles, like the rest of us, it was very evident that he is striving his hardest after Christ. He was recently offered a pastoral position, including compensation and a house, which he turned down! He sees his current situation as his calling...(he) has nothing but one duffel bag of clothes, but has an overabundance of joy in His Savior." As a result of this encounter Collin and the rest of the team were challenged not only to break their preconceived perspective of the homeless but also in their relationship with Christ and love for those less fortunate.
Cedarville students stand next to UH Logo.
The Cedarville Group.
The group from University of N. Iowa.
Posing for a pic in Love Park, downtown.
Cleaning up a lot.
Driving to Chinatown and "Philabodia"
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